Michelin Pilot Sport PS2

I don't know what the fuss is all about for this tyre. In my opinion its way overpriced for what it offers. Its an all around good tyre, but does not excell in any area. For a tyre that wears that fast I would be expecting a much better grip.

The whole feedback is a bit vague. Good lateral grip in the dry tails off in damp conditions. Not too much warning of breakaway in extremes.

Fantastic tyres - find it hard to fault them for all round performance - and the front pair have lasted around 25000 miles - rears still going strong. Didn't have a second thought about replacing with the same tyres. The only drawback is that the ride isn't great on the 45 profiles, guess that's true of all 45s though...

After spending a small fortune poping these on my 3 series I can only say after checking the rears ( fronts 225 45 17) how dissapointed I was to find that only after 5000 miles I have just under 4mm of tread left. These were only fitted October 07 ! I was told that Michelin were best for mileage but not the case here.Now don't get me wrong I enjoy driving but don't burn rubber at every traffic light.These handle dry road fantasticly and the breaking is good, and always feel confident of stopping even in the wet.I do find the rears tend to "Slip out" in the wet when cornering over bumpy roads and can only put this down to the tram line type tread pattern and this is even more noticable now that they are well worn and no they are not over inflated.
The noise of the rears is also noticable annoying especially on motorway driving, a case of turn up the radio I am afraid.Just to point out the fronts still have 7mm of tread and look like new still, it looks like I could do two maybe two and a half sets of rears to one of fronts if I replaced like for like, but I won't be doing that again I am afraid.
Can anyone recommend a possible replacement for the Michelin, I was looking at Uni-royal rainsports and they have some good reviews - do you know better?

Had these fitted to my Boxster from new - fronts (235/35/19) are still legal after 21k miles of spirited country road driving and more sedate town work and commuting. I replaced the rears (265/35/19) after 17k miles as they were down to 2mm depth. I was very impressed to get that sort of mileage, the previous generation Michelin Pilot MXM pattern last 16k miles on my old and 60bhp less 2.7 Boxster. These tyres often consistent grip through their life and gave no tramlining under braking, even when worn. An excellent tyre. Note mine are Porsche approved N rated versions, which may differ in compound to stock tyres.

Great tyres in the wet or dry, Superb grip especially when warmed up. Just dont try using them in snow or you will get stuck.

I have tried a number of tyres on the Maserati and the Michelins appear the best.

Other brands like Dunlop really suffer from fishtailing and a lot of uncontroable oversteer.

The Pilot Sport 2's make a huge huge difference in the dry and the wet, the difference is just huge. You can have confidence with the Michelins that they arent about to just give up

I've never experienced anything quite like this!
On this car, you wont find the limit in the dry. Full stop. 100% traction in the wet, progressiveness good, but deteriorates as the tyres wear.
Obviously this is a car with a grippy chassis anyway. However I managed to find the limits quite easily with my previous Pirelli Pzero Rossos.
If you have an S3 (8L chassis) and you want the limits to be set by your guts and not your car, these are the tyres for you.

Very good, but wear quickly on the front wheels. Probably because it's a 250BHP FWD.

Simply one of the best performance tires you can purchase to date.